Actually, DSL is just as vunerable as any other form of TCP/IP transport.
On the windows platform (believe it or not) there are security measures
in place, and some you can tighten your self like unbinding fileshareing
from the inet interface. Your just as vunerable on a dialup connection too
might i add ;) Security boils down to one general rule if you don't use it
it doesn't need to be there, and if you do think you need it you should
reconsider. If something absolutly needs tobe accepting connections it
should be properly firewalled.
In short: TCP/IP is TCP/IP no matter how it gets delievered, ppp DSL cable
or lan it's all the same
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Ripcrd6 wrote:
> I read recently about people on the cable network being able to access other
> users computers if they had the knowledge of a sysadmin. Likely they were
> also using Linux to do so. They could see files and everything is a browse
> mode on other people's PCs. In the same article they discussed the
> benefits of DSL (digital subscriber line). One benefit was that this could
> not happen. A person would have to be at the phone company in the
> switchroom or building or whatever to have this kind of access. Another
> benefit being that you could use your phone at the same time to make a call
> due to the way the setup worked. YMMV, but I can't try either since we
> don't have that kind of service in my area yet. We actually may, but we're
> talking paying an arm and a leg per month for it.
> Brian
>
> >Now that I know this, I'll look for a
> >way to encrypt data that I don't want to be public.
> >Is the system safe from the network side? I didn't install any servers.
> Should I be
> >afraid of Trojan horses? I ask this because my I have a constant connection
> to the
> >internet via cablemodem.
> >
> >Jo
> >
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